Children’s involvement in criminal processes
by Australian Law Reform Commission, Lyn
June 4, 2015
Source: (1997) Australian Law Refrom Commission, Draft Report 3 This report summarizes Australia’s efforts to develop varying approaches to juvenile justice. Once such approach is the family group conferencing. This conferencing is considered a form of restorative justice because the...
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Northern Territory Law Reform Committee
by Douglas, Lyn
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Australian Law Reform Commission, Issue 69 This article details the Mediation and the Criminal Justice System Report published annual by the Northern Territory Law Reform Committee. A recent report by the Committee recommended the use of conflict-offender mediation in the...
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Teaching Law and Order: Criminal Justice and Schools In NSW
by Neil, Rebecca
June 4, 2015
Source: (2000) Australian Journal of Human Rights, 6(1) This article deals with issues in schools, including truancy, drug use, and school violence, and how these issues are related to the criminal justice system. Criminalization in schools has tended to increase with more police power and...
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Kids, Cops, Courts, Conferencing and Children’s Rights – A Note on Perspectives
by Bargen, Jenny
June 4, 2015
Source: (1996) Australian Journal of Human Rights 2(2) This article details New Zealand and Australia’s use of family group conferencing (and other similar forms of conferencing). Statutory and non-statuary schemes for conferencing are summarized as well as their uses in various parts...
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Mandatory Sentencing: Implications for Judicial Independence.
by Mason, Anthony
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Australian Journal of Human Rights. 7(2):21-30. This article expresses concern for mandatory sentencing, which generally “insists on the incarceration of a first offender, more especially a young offender, for theft, no matter how trivial the amount involved.” The...
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Non-State Ordering in the Post-Apartheid South Africa. A Study of Some Structures of Non-State Ordering the Western Cape Province.
by Tshehla, Boyane John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Research dissertation presented for the approval of Senate in fulfilment of part of the requirements for the degree Master of Laws in approved courses and a minor dissertation. Deptment of Law. University of Cape Town. Downloaded 8 July 03. This paper represents a research...
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Western and Local Approaches to Justice in Rwanda
by Uvin, Peter
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Global Governance. 9: 219-231. Peter Uvin and Charles Mironko assert that Rwanda represents an important test case for the emerging international post-conflict agenda. In the wake of the worst genocide of the late twentieth century, the international community has invested...
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SaferSanerSchools: Transforming School Culture with Restorative Practices
by Mirsky, Laura
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Restorative Practices E-Forum. May 20. SaferSanerSchools is a program of the International Institute for Restorative Practices. It was developed in response to a perceived crisis in American education and in society as a whole – a crisis of truancy and dropout rates,...
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Dispute Resolution At Best Practice Intervention
by Marshall, Chrissiejoy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Paper presented at the Best Practice Interventions in Corrections for Indigenous People Conference . Australian Institute of Criminology. Sydney, 8-9 October. Downloaded 20 June 03. Chrissiejoy Marshall observes at the beginning of this paper that mainstream institutions in...
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Restorative Responses: From Vision to Action.
by Greenwood, Jean
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Clergy Journal. April. PP. 6-9. In this article, Jean Greenwood – a Presbyterian minister in Minnesota, mediator for the State of Minnesota, and community faculty member in social work at the University of Minnesota – explores the opportunity in restorative justice...
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Renewed Hearts: The Transforming Power of Restorative Justice
by Miller, Darcie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2001) Clergy Journal. April. 10-11. A Methodist pastor in Minnesota, Darcie Miller is committed to teaching and practicing restorative justice. Here she recounts a personal story of the significance of a restorative approach to crime. The crime consisted of vandalism of the...
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Wet’suwet’en Unlocking Aboriginal Justice
by George, Bonnie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference On Restorative Justice. Centre for Restorative Justice. 1-4 June. Vancouver BC. Downloaded 16 June 2003. According to Bonnie George, in response to general dissatisfaction with the western judicial system, the Unlocking...
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Restorative Justice: Healing Approach to Elder Abuse
by Groh, Arlene
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference On Restorative Justice. Centre for Restorative Justice. 1-4 June. Vancouver BC. Downloaded 16 June 2003. Elder abuse is often referred to as a hidden crime. Concern for victims of this hidden crime led to the formation of the...
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Restorative Justice: A Victim’s Personal Exploration Towards Acceptance
by Rice, Susan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference On Restorative Justice. Centre for Restorative Justice. 1-4 June. Vancouver BC. Downloaded 16 June 2003. A victim of hate calls, Susan Rice describes in this paper her personal journey through victimization. In the context of...
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Safe Schools: Strategies for Changing a Culture
by Bargen, Catherine
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference On Restorative Justice. Centre for Restorative Justice. 1-4 June. Vancouver BC. Downloaded 16 June 2003. Teachers, administrators, and communities are looking for ways to make their schools “safe schools.” What,...
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